Issue 80, August September, 2016 - Phillip Island Vibe · Determine what your income is after tax....

Issue 80, Phillip Island Vibe

Next Issue Deadline For All Advertising - Monday September 1st, 2016

In this issue we welcome new multi-award winning digital marketing and PR company SLY Creative Group to the Island. SLY are keen to get to know the Island community and they have lots of exciting plans ahead (p10-11). The Game Over Man reviews the much awaited No Man’s Sky (p9) while Leon tries to work out Who Really Murdered Natalie Wood? (p13). Newhaven College is running a free evening seminar promoting positive youth mental health in an increasingly online world (p2) and Finance Path shares some practical ways to help you smash your debt (p3). And lastly, The Time Poor Gardener cleans out winter clutter while What’s Cooking finally makes peace with kale (p5-6). Happy reading and see you all in Spring!

Issue 80, August-September, 2016

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For many people buying a home and taking out a mortgage will be the biggest financial commitment they make in their life. The way in which we manage that mortgage has a huge impact on our financial future.

Too often we see people who have found themselves feeling like the mortgage is weighing them down, or is a noose around their neck, however with some proactive money management you too could be one of the hundreds of thousands of Australians who have built their wealth from property.

Here are some proven tips that we guarantee will set you on the right path.

Know your Numbers

Being aware of what you have coming in and going out is the first step to taking control of your mortgage. An understanding and control of your expenses will have a bigger impact on

your financial position than the interest rate on your loan. Determine what your income is after tax. Work out your expenses (fortnightly or monthly) and factor in your mortgage repayments. Simply by seeing where the money is going you’ll be able to make better decisions about your spending priorities. Check out our Smart Money tool that makes managing your money easy.

Cut your debt

If you must have a credit card then make sure you only have one!

Some people have cards for points. That’s fine but understand you need to spend close to $60,000 per year to get value from these points and if you are paying interest on the credit card the benefit is often gone.

Remember reward points weren’t invented to just benefit you.

If a credit card makes payments for certain items easier no problem, use your money not credit and utilise a Visa or Mastercard debit card.

Direct your income

Making fortnightly repayments can have a big impact, minimising on interest over the long term. Through this strategy you essentially make 13 monthly repayments over the course of a year, rather than 12.

This extra month’s repayment helps reduce your principal, which can potentially save thousands in interest repayments over the life of your loan. When extra funds come your way, like tax refunds, put them straight into your home loan as well – it can really make a difference in the long term.

Compartmentalise your Income and expenses

Experience has shown us when it comes to managing money and debt if all your expenses and income are paid into the one account it can be hard to have total clarity over where you are at. We use a number of proven strategies that work when it comes to reducing debt and making the most of your money. For example, for many people we recommend to have their pay directed straight to their mortgage and then drawing a set amount to live on each fortnight or month. Putting the money in separate ‘jars’ helps our clients to get greater clarity on spending whilst effectively paying extra into their home loan and paying debt off quicker

Take Control Now

The key to all of this is to be proactive and take control.

A Mortgage advisor should do more than help you select a product from your existing bank or the one you have heard is great from a friend. Our role is to understand where you are at and where you want to go and provide lending solutions to help you get there.

Your local advisor John Lipscomb has had some great results with people just like you. Contact him directly on 0417 367 021 or email [email protected] to learn more about these results and check out whether John can assist you.

Four Proven Tips to Smash Your Debt

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Riffing With The Suspended 4TH

Today we will be rocking out with a classic suspended 4th riff popularised by none other then Mr. Keith Richards (or Mr. Health as my Grandma calls him).

This is a progression in E going from E to A.

Play the E chord at the 9th fret with the bar of your 1st finger then use your 3rd and 2nd finger to play the suspended 4th fill.

To play the A, wrap your thumb over the top of the neck and use it to fret the A note on the low E string. This leaves your 4th finger free to play the suspended 4th fill on the 3rd string 7th fret.

This suspended 4th riff appears in hundreds of great rocks songs.

Here are just a few to listen out for; Alright Now by Free, Rock and Roll All Night by Kiss, Its Late by Queen, Shoot Shoot by UFO, Rosalie by Thin Lizzy and Brown Sugar by The Rolling Stones.

Can you hear any more?

Stay tuned for the September Vibe for some classic Rock N Roll licks.


Baby Greens & Haloumi Omelette

This is my favourite breakfast when I don’t feel like carbohydrate. Its success lies in the freshness of the greens and the quality of the haloumi. I have a random assortment of flat leaf parsley, silver beet, roquette, spring onions and, dare I say it, kale growing in my garden at any given time. So I just tear off a generous handful and throw them into the whisked eggs. I know I’ve been very mean to kale in previous issues, so I have included it in this recipe as a very worthy candidate.

What you Need: 2 x free range eggs 2 x tbsp haloumi cheese Big handful of: flat leaf parsley, kale, silver beet, roquette Splash of red chili oil* Splash of milk

What you Do: Whisk the eggs with the milk. Add the chopped haloumi. Use a non stick fry pan and gently fry off the greens in the chilli oil. Pour in the eggs and allow them to form a decent cooked base before folding the omelette over with a spatula. Slide omelette onto a plate and serve. And some crunchy toast if you’re starving.

*Easy to make - finely chop a red chilli and place it in a jar of olive oil. Keeps for ages in the fridge.

**Good haloumi is available from the local supermarkets. If you go for one that is white rather than yellow then you’ve made the right decision.

If you have any special requests or questions about hijinks in the kitchen, then why not drop us a line at: [email protected]. We aim to please.


Hoarding Unhinged Why is it so hard to throw things away? We’re happy to throw out clearly defined garbage but when it comes to old possessions it’s quite a different story. The nebulous line separating rubbish from stuff that’s truly worth keeping seems to always creep towards accumulation. Perhaps it’s because shedding possessions makes us feel that we are getting rid of life; sending out parts of ourselves into the universe to face a future as landfill or, if we’re careful, as recycled objects that charm themselves into the intimacy of someone else’s life. The private nature of hoarding doesn’t seem such a bad option after all.

You’d think that by moving outside, into the open space of the backyard, we’d be free from the shackles of choice. But interestingly, we haul the burden of cleansing into whatever environment we move into.

Over winter (several winters if I’m to be honest), I’ve accumulated so much junk in the backyard. Swathes of leaves, overgrown shrubs, broken bits of backyard furniture and objet d’art (a term I use compassionately for dejected whims of creative behaviour) have truly cluttered my outdoor living space. So I decided to rent a skip for the weekend. When the skip arrived bright and early the next morning (at my request) and after the initial excitement at the prospect of finally cleaning up, I was hit with a kind of post purchase dissonance, fuelled by the realisation that I had a whole lot of back breaking work to do.

Faced with an overwhelming situation I always opt for maniacal control. Step 1: Reconnaissance. First port of call was the sheds. Once I hustled my way through a gang of surly garden tools whose moving parts were paralysed by salt and rust, I noticed what a large proportion of shed space I’d donated to empty plastic planting pots and tomato stakes. Even by Southern European standards there were way too many stakes and I really can’t remember the last time I potted up cuttings from perennials, roses, fruit trees, hydrangeas or any other plant life for that matter. So the pots went. The excess tomato stakes are ear marked for a passionate

gardener friend I have in mind.

Now it was time to survey the yard. The incredibly helpful skip guy told me to layer the skip to maximise volume, first with garden clippings and then add the heavy stuff, like furniture, on top. Sounded like a fusion recipe that justified getting out the electric hedger. A buzz cut later, and I’d added the first layer to the skip.

Some time back my sons obligingly climbed onto shed number two and chopped down some branches from the neighbour’s gum tree which drapes over the shed roof. I was hoping to capture a little more sun in the backyard. Unfortunately it didn’t really help as the sun is blocked by the much higher tree branches. But the boys had a good time, so something was gained. Since then, the massive branches have been lying dormant in the backyard like a gloomy monster. While it was sleeping I gave it a few chops and hurled the lot into the skip.

I really hate the dark, so it quickly became apparent that thinking of other ways to increase light became my focus and motivation.

The next culprits were a couple of old climbing geraniums whose outrageous growth had begun to outweigh their pretty purple and red blooms. One had sprawled itself over the garden shed and the other was clinging in the dark onto the back fence. I did have a moment’s hesitation. A kind hearted friend of mine finds it painstaking to rip out any plant, no matter how overgrown or unattractive. By her reckoning, it’s life after all. She is much nicer than me. My hesitation was fleeting, especially when I realised how easy it was to haul them both down and tug out their weeny root systems.

Next was the passionfruit vine. Years ago in my suburban Melbourne backyard I had planted a passionate fruit vine on a side fence which produced an abundance of fruit


every year. When the kids were little they would sit at the island bench after school scooping out the juicy sweet pulp faster than I could cut the fruit in half. When I moved down here I thought I could replicate this idyll. So I planted a pair of vines at the back of a garden bed behind a row of fruit trees, assuming the vine would climb up the trellis and onto the shed roof to chase the sun. But it had different ideas. Instead of growing upwards, it grew outwards, grabbing onto the fruit trees with criminal intent. Despite my genuine attempts to rehabilitate it and encourage it to grow up the trellis, the vine out-muscled me, hell bent on strangling the fruit trees. It became a kind of war which I never won. I wouldn’t have minded so much if it was gracious enough to throw me a few fruit. Every year it would seduce me with its amorous flowers. But they never, ever turned into fruit. To be honest, the vines had become a sullen shroud. I’d really given it my best shot; but it was time to give up. I couldn’t kid myself any longer.

It was an exhausting weekend. By Sunday night the skip was so jam packed you couldn’t squeeze in a soupçon of anything. After a meticulous rake and sweep of the backyard it really looks neat, tidy and ordered.

The skip has now gone and I don’t miss a single item that was tossed. Now when I look outside the yard looks twice the size. But while I have a clearer vision, I’m really not sure what the next step should be.


Community Markets

Churchill Island Farmers' Market 4th Sat of month

8am-1pm. 246 Samuel Amess Dr, Churchill Island.

Cowes Island Craft Market 2nd Sat of month St

Phillips Parish Hall Thompson Ave, Cowes.

Market on Chapel 4th Sat of month Uniting Church

cnr Chapel St & Warley Ave, Cowes.

Phillip Island Lions Club Steptoe’s Emporium Bric a

brac, 2nd hand furniture. Sat/Sun, 10am-1pm,

59522140.

Coal Creek Farmers Market 2nd Sat or each month,

8am-12.30pm, Coal Creek Community Park

Grantville Market 4th Sunday of month, 8am-2pm,

Grantville Recreation Reserve

Inverloch Community Farmers Market

Last Sunday of month, 8am-1pm, ‘The Glade’.

Invereloch Farmers Market 3rd Sunday of month,

8am-1pm, ‘The Glade’.

Kongwak Market Every Sunday, 10am-3pm.


People have been clamouring for the arrival of this game. The game is bigger than Texas, well much bigger in fact, boasting 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 unique planets all with their own unique ecosystem. Each planet will have unique plants with unique animals roaming its surface. If a player wanted to visit every planet in the game it would take 585 billion years.

No Man’s Sky is also beautiful in a sort of 1950’s retro stylised look. The planets, the animals and the vegetation are all procedurally generated. This is where the computer has a huge bunch of variables and mixes them together to produce what looks like unique art. Sort of like Mr Potato Head but with millions of pieces. So the game is mind bogglingly vast with unique and beautiful planets inhabited with bizarre creatures. What could possibly be wrong with that?

Well judging by the hype train that has just pulled into the station, nothing. Audiences were overwhelmingly excited by the gigantic sandbox of a game. But here is the thing about games: it’s not really what it looks like or how big it is, it’s all about the doing. If we wanted to just look at stuff we would go outside or watch a film. Games are all about the doing. What are the challenges and how is the player rewarded for completing those challenges?

No Man’s Sky is supposed to borrow heavily from Minecraft and it has a great deal of crafting. So here is the problem with that: it’s like they took half of Minecraft and forgot about the other half. They have the gathering sorted they just don’t have enough things to do with the resources you have gathered. In Minecraft it’s all about building. In No Man’s Sky it’s about flying to the centre of the universe. Not really an immediate reward. There are other things to do but none of them are really that compelling. I’ve played the game for about six hours and maybe it gets a bit more exciting after twenty but I doubt that.

At the end of the day, I found it all tediously boring. Hunt for resources fill up your insufficient resource slots and fly to the next planet. There just aren’t enough unique rewards for the endless grinding the game is asking you to complete. Maybe if you were looking for something slightly Zen to do rather than looking at your lava lamp for hours this would be perfect. For me, while it’s beautiful to look at that just isn’t enough; it’s about the doing. At the end of the day, a game must give far more than it takes to ensure a rewarding game play experience.


SLY Creative Group is the new player in town.

Multi-award winning digital marketing and PR company SLY Creative Group is expanding its footprint in Victoria with a move into new offices at Phillip Island early next

year.

Luke Hemmings is one of Australia's most successful entrepreneurs under 30, motivated by a dream to living a life of purpose and making the world a better place, and he’s sharing his secrets to career success.

At age 23, Hemmings started SLY Creative Group which provides a variety of clients with a range of services from web design, PR, digital marketing, branding, graphic design, printing, signage, SEO and copywriting.

“I didn’t have any business management experience when I started my own company, but I wanted to create success for myself and I knew I could do it; I had watched first-hand what had created success for other entrepreneurs.”

As they say, the rest is history. Just six months into the life changing journey Hemmings has built a solid foundation for SLY and is experiencing rapid growth along the way. Starting with just one office, the entrepreneur now has six offices nationally and is just about to expand into the international market. Having won numerous awards including Young Australian Of the Year nominee three years in a row, and most recently, winning Best New Business, Hemmings’ personal success also gave him the desire to start helping others around him.

“I thought to myself: I can create these results for other people, influencing and changing their lives the same way that I’ve dramatically changed mine. My story is a bit ‘rags to riches’. I’m not being pretentious saying ‘riches’. But for me I had a completely different lifestyle four years ago compared to how I live now. It was just having that discipline, having systems, connecting with the right people and implementing our plans. And I thought: You know what? I’d love to be able to drive this success with other people.”

“We chose Phillip Island as the next destination to expand the business due to the amount of major infrastructure investment occurring at the moment and the strong population growth. Personally, I believe it’s not about doing business every day, it’s more about putting back into that community that we do business with week to week,” Hemmings says.

“Coming to a small coastal town like Phillip Island you need to have a strong focus on the community and that’s

what we plan to do by employing locals and having engagement in the community through sponsorship and charity events. You also need to deliver on your promises and be true to your word. Be prompt, don’t take people’s time for granted, and be authentic. I really believe in being authentic. What you see is what you get. To be successful in business you have to be able to adjust your way of operating to suit people from all different types of life; but you still need to stay true to who you are and let that shine through. You don’t need to try and be something you’re not; you just need to have the best education and product knowledge about your marketplace and the results will follow.”

“Phillip Island is an opportunity for us at SLY Creative Group to expand our growing national market to Victoria and beyond. While Phillip Island is a small coastal town, it’s also known as a major tourist and holiday destination. Hosting international sporting events such as the Moto GP and V8 Supercars, these massive events attract local, interstate and international enthusiasts to the Island. SLY, as a culture based company, is very keen to seek involvement in these events, support local enterprise and gain a consistent client base to enable us to share our experiences and success with the local community. So while Phillip Island plays a role on the world stage, it has not lost its seaside town charm. At SLY, we are committed to doing our absolute best to help the local community prosper and grow.”

Hemmings says Phillip Island presents a central location, with strong street exposure and generous space to support future growth. “We’re looking forward to embedding ourselves into the Bass Coast business community. It’s a place that’s growing and we have already received so much support now that the word is out there. So I’d like to extend an invitation to local business owners to help celebrate the opening of our new Phillip Island office early in 2017.”


Experiments, Investigations & Activities to Celebrate Science

Weekend

National Science Week is a week-long celebration of science and technology when thousands of scientists, students, teachers and researchers get involved in activities and events right across the country. Budding scientists are set to converge on the Antarctic Journey at the Nobbies for a series of experiments, demonstrations and activities on the weekend of August 20-21.

MAD SCIENTISTS

The Nature Parks’ mad sci-rangers need your help to complete their wacky experiments. Have you ever wondered where elephant toothpaste comes from? How does energy create waves? Find out the answers to these important questions and more during an hour of wacky science demonstrations.

When: Saturday, 20 Aug and Sunday, 21 Aug – 10am to 11am

Where: WWF Antarctic Journey, Nobbies Centre

ICY SCIENCE

What lives beneath the sea ice surrounding Antarctica? Animals, and lots of them. Antarctic adventurer Diver Matt illustrates the diversity and abundance of marine life on the coastal margin of Antarctica and engages in quick and simple experiments to help explain why it’s so different to what we find on the Victorian coast.

When: Saturday, 20 Aug and Sunday, 21 Aug – 11am to 12pm


SAVVY SCIENCE Can you drop a fresh egg without it breaking? Can you grow a plant in a jar? Join our slightly zany sci-rangers for an afternoon of fun activities where the kids get to use their heads and provide some clever and amusing solutions for the little scientist in all of us. Don’t worry; it’s perfectly safe, but it could be a little messy!

When: Saturday, 20 Aug and Sunday, 21 Aug – 1pm to 3pm


All of these fun-filled activities are included in the standard entry fee to the Antarctic Journey of $18 per Adult, $9 per Child (4-15), $45 per Family (2A2C), $12.60 Concession.

Come and help us celebrate National Science Week at the Antarctic Journey at the Nobbies!


Celebrity Murders By Leon Herbert

A fascinating mystery series by our off-shore crime writer

WHO MURDERED NATALIE WOOD? Three monks - Seppo, Kinzan and Ganto - were in the

temple garden. Seppo noticed a pail of water and pointed to it. Kinzan said, “The water is clear, and the moon is

reflected. “No, no,” said Seppo, “it is not water, it is not moon”. Ganto kicked over the pail. Zen Mondo

“Tell the truth and run.” Yugoslav proverb

It could have been the prelude to a thriller: the starred Hollywood couple arguing drunkenly in a remote island restaurant, watched by their male guest, a handsome younger actor, the subject of the husband’s jealousy. The return to the luxury yacht moored out to sea in the sub-tropical darkness, then more arguing between man and wife. A thud, then silence, and a body overboard. No call to the rescue services until it was too late.

This is how the actress Natalie Wood died, according to Dennis Davern, skipper of the yacht she owned with her actor husband, Robert Wagner. The guest in that restaurant, who was asleep on the boat when Wood disappeared into the Pacific Ocean, was Christopher Walken. Central casting could not have done better.

Wood’s body was found floating in the water a mile away from the yacht Splendour, off the island of Santa Catalina, California, on the morning of November 29, 1981. She was clothed in a nightgown, socks, and a down jacket. There were two dozen bruises on the body, consistent with having slipped while trying to tie up a loose dinghy, or board it. The 13ft dinghy was later found beached on the island. At the time of Wood’s death, Hollywood was awash with speculation that Wagner was consumed with jealousy over his beautiful wife’s liking for Walken.

Recently, almost 30 years to the day, Davern re-ignited that mystery, claiming that Wagner was “responsible” for his 43-year-old wife’s death. The allegation came as Los Angeles police re-opened the investigation into how

Wood, star of West Side Story, and Oscar nominee, met her end. That inquiry might yet overturn a verdict of accidental death returned by a Californian coroner.

Asked in a TV interview if he believed Wagner, star of Hart to Hart and a host of films, was “responsible” for Miss Wood’s death, he replied: “Yes, I would say so. Yes.”

Asked if he meant “foul play”, or that Mr Wagner had not wanted to look very hard when his wife went missing, he replied: “I think it was a matter of: 'We’re not going to look too hard, we’re not going to turn on the searchlight, we’re not going to notify anybody right now.’ We didn’t take any steps to see if we could locate her.”

Recently, LA County Sheriff’s Department said Wagner was not a suspect in the case, but its re-opening can bring no comfort to the 81 year-old actor.

Relating the events of that night, Davern said he had wanted to turn on the vessel’s searchlight and call for help, but Wagner told him: “We don’t want to do that right now.”

The skipper said he called the US Coast Guard but only after four hours, a delay he deeply regretted. Wagner has always maintained that he thought his wife had gone to shore alone on the yacht’s dinghy.

Davern also alleged that Wagner had wanted the subsequent investigation to remain “low profile”. In deference to his employer, he had not told investigators the full truth of what occurred that night.

“I made mistakes by not telling the honest truth in a police

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report,” he said.

The new investigation follows a statement by Davern to police. It was given to them by the author Marti Rulli, with whom the skipper co-operated on a 2009 book about the affair, Goodbye Natalie Goodbye Splendour.

In the statement, Mr Davern said there was a “tense atmosphere on the boat” and that Wagner clearly did not want Walken along. Davern told CNN: “The tension was building very strong. Christopher and Natalie were sitting on the sofa. Within a split second Robert Wagner picked up a wine bottle and smashed it on the coffee table and yelled 'what are you trying to do... my wife?’

If Warren Beatty had been on board that fateful day he might also have served as a catalyst, maybe even a suspect, for the cause of her death. He was not on board, however the legendary womanizer and actor nominated for 18 Academy Awards had been her lover.

In excerpts from her personal diary, painful details of the tragic Hollywood beauty’s passionate romance with Warren Beatty are revealed for the first time.

“Neither Warren nor I was ready for a permanent relationship,” Wood confessed in the emotional writings uncovered by the National Enquirer, a magazine well known for exposing the love affairs of the Hollywood set. In her diary Natalie wrote:

“Although our romance lasted approximately two years, our affair was a ‘collision’ — a combination three-ring circus and five-alarm fire.”

The legendary lady killer met Wood when they played young lovers in the Oscar-winning 1961 drama, Splendor in the Grass. At the time, the first of Wood’s two marriages to Robert Wagner was ending. The affair ended shortly before she re-married Wagner in 1972.

The case had been reopened by the Los Angeles County

Sheriff's Department in November 2011, and last year a coroner changed the cause of death from drowning to "drowning and other undetermined factors."

The daughter of Russian parents who immigrated to San Francisco, Natalie rose to fame as a child actress and appeared in Miracle on 34th Street at the age of just 11.

She starred opposite legendary James Dean in Rebel

Without A Cause and in many other movies. She also starred in a number of musicals, including West Side Story and Gypsy. At the time of her death, Wood was filming Brainstorm with Walken, which was later released posthumously.

Davern, the skipper, continued in his statement- “Christopher got up and went into his state room. Natalie was so devastated she went into her state room. Robert Wagner followed Natalie and they continued arguing in her state room.

“I went up on the bridge and turned on music because I didn’t want them to think I was eavesdropping on their personal problems. There was a lot of physical activity going on in the stateroom. Noises.


“Then they went to the aft deck. They argued back there for a little while, then it became silent. I went down to the aft deck and Robert Wagner said 'Natalie is missing’ and would I search the boat.”

Later he returned and Mr Wagner told him the dinghy had gone.

“I knew she wouldn’t take the dinghy because she was deathly afraid of water.”

According to Davern, the actor did not want to radio for help immediately because he was concerned about his public image.

Two years ago Wagner confirmed in his book Pieces of My Heart that he and Mr Walken had argued on the boat and Miss Wood got up and went to her room.

Wagner said he then smashed the wine bottle but he and Mr Walken got some fresh air on the deck and calmed down. When he went back to his room his wife had gone. He and Davern found the dinghy missing and assumed Wood must have gone to shore. He radioed for a boat and went to look for her.

Alan Nierob, Wagner’s spokesman, said: “Although no one in the Wagner family has heard further from the LA County Sheriff’s Department about this matter, they fully support [their] efforts and trust they will evaluate whether any new information relating to the death of Natalie Wood-Wagner is valid, and comes from a credible source or sources, other than those trying to profit from the 30-year anniversary of her tragic death.”

Born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko to Russian immigrant parents in San Francisco, Wood appeared in many memorable movies.

From the time she was a teenager, her love life was turbulent and frequently unhappy. She had numerous affairs with many of Hollywood’s male stars, including Dennis Hopper, Warren Beatty and Frank Sinatra. She married Wagner, a clean-cut leading man, in 1957 but they were divorced five years later. Both went on to marry other people and have children but remarried in 1972. Wagner has admitted to a jealous temperament. In his autobiography, he described sitting outside the house of

Warren Beatty, one of his wife’s admirers, with a gun. Walken, 68, who was appearing with Wood in the film Brainstorm at the time of her death, has never commented on the affair. Wood’s sister, Lana, said she had never believed her brother-in-law’s version of events

Well readers of The Vibe: for months afterwards, Wood’s death was the main topic of conversation at Hollywood dinner parties. Many believed the glamorous Wood was at the centre of a love triangle, in which her older husband was pitched against the younger Walken. Why, it was asked repeatedly, would the actress, who was afraid of water, go on deck on her own late at night to tend to a dinghy?

Walken starred in a Steven Spielberg movie in 2002 with the prescient title: “Catch Me If You Can”. Perhaps the title provides a pshysic clue, but there’s more!!

In Walken's opening scene, he's giving a speech to a local Rotary Club: He said:

"I stand here humbled by the presence of Mayor Robert Wagner and our club president, Jack Barnes. Most of all, I'm honoured to see my loving wife Paula and my son Frank Jr....aw, stand up. Come on, sitting in the front row. (He added)

Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse wouldn't quit."

Anyone else find that a little strange? Don't you think Walken would feel a little strange using the name 'Robert Wagner' and then telling a story about a drowning? Makes one wonder but then he didn’t write the script unless it was an impromptu speech!!


Stunning Birding in Baringo

Lake Baringo is home to 450 species of birds and thus a paradise for bird-watchers. There are two activities that provide excellent birding opportunities: a walk up to the escarpment overlooking the lake or a boat ride on the lake. Eurasian Swallows, Fish Eagles swooping in for their catch and various Kingfishers were some of the highlights when I visited Baringo. It was spectacular!

Kenya is a spectacular destination for birders and this article will describe the species you can expect to see at Lake Baringo as I tell you about my experience there.

Lake Baringo is home to 450 species of birds and thus a

paradise for bird-watchers. There are two activities that provide excellent birding opportunities: a walk up to the escarpment overlooking the lake or a boat ride on the lake. The walk takes you through scrubland where you can see woodpeckers, ostriches, and we even saw a Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl. But I think the boat ride is really special and the birds we saw that morning were incredible.

We set off at 7 o’clock in the morning so we could make the most of the waking activity on the lake. Within a few minutes we saw a Pied Kingfisher posing perfectly on a branch followed closely by a Fish Eagle that had just caught a fish! There he stood proudly on a tree with a fish held firmly in his claw. A beautiful Malachite Kingfisher tried to retreat into the bushes, but wasn’t quite quick enough. One area of the lake is covered in water lilies and we spotted an African Jacana picking its way through the foliage. The hippos also like that area and we were greeted with grunts from the herd as we passed. A flock of Eurasian Swallows flew in and arranged themselves on a dead tree protruding out of the lake. Local fishermen prefer the early morning for their work and we saw quite a few in their dugout canoes (not what I would like to be in when hippos are around!).

There is an island in the middle of the lake and as we drew closer, we saw the mansion of a nest that Hamerkops had

built, but unfortunately we didn’t spot the residents. One fisherman feeds the Fish Eagles for the visitors each morning and so we watched the spectacle of a Fish Eagle swooping in for the catch. We continued around the island and there we found two Water Thick-knees paddling in the shallows. The island is rocky on one side and we were lucky to see some rock hyraxes and a monitor lizard basking in the sun. We also saw two Madagascar Bee-eaters in a tree and a Long-tailed Cormorant perched on a rock drying its wings. As we returned to the camp, the boat came close to the shore where Lesser Masked Weavers were busy building nests. And finally, just when we thought we had seen enough, a Pied Kingfisher appeared from seemingly nowhere, dove into the water in front of our boat and emerged with a fish! Spectacular!

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Vibe Quick Crossword 80 Vibe Sudoku 80 Each row, column and sub-box must have the numbers 1-9 occurring just once.

1 Who is the Roman God of Wine? 2 Which part of Donald Trump’s anatomy is statistically small? 3 Jamie and Jules Oliver have just had their fifth child. Boy or girl? 4 In a standard deck of cards, which ace is known as the death card? 5 Who stars as Jason Bourne in The Bourne film series? 6 Where was talk show host Graham Norton born? 7 Who is the British Prime Minister? 8 What is the maximum number of terms a US president can serve? 9 What poison do apple seeds contain? 10 In Seinfeld, what is exposed on Elaine’s Christmas card?

Across 1 A device that maintains temperature 7 To draw or remove by suction 8 Viscous substances 9 Identical 10 Inflict punishment for 12 Powerful attraction 14 Shorten 16 Precipitation of ice crystals 19 Second letter of the Greek alphabet 20 Worker 21 Bravely

Down 1 Examinations 2 Things with a hidden meaning 3 Intend 4 Very skinny 5 On top of 6 A large bottle for wine 11 The only one of its kind 12 Stories 13 Radioactive isotopes 15 Likeness 17 Straggly 18 Qualified

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Vibe Sudoku Solution 80

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Quiz Solution 80 1 Bacchus 2 His hands 3 Boy 4 Ace of Spades 5 Matt Damon 6 Ireland 7 Theresa May 8 Two 9 Cyanide 10 Her nipple

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